Re: How to configure wireless network card

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> > NM is more than just a connection profile manager (system-config-network
> > can do that part, more or less).  It also wants to support seamless
> > roaming and other features to make dynamic connections transparent. Browse
> > the NM mailing list to see discussions about complexities of getting
> > reliable, dynamic connectivity over wireless.  Timing and signal quality
> > issues abound and support for the scanning NM needs to do is highly
> > variable across cards and drivers.
> 
> Yes, it seems to me it is trying to do far too much,
> and not doing anything very well.
> If as you say it is difficult to cover all cards and drivers
> maybe it is not a good idea to try.
> 
> I spent this afternoon trying to use NM with two different 
> remote WiFi devices, a PCI Agere/Orinoco device and a Linksys WRT54GL.
> I had zero success with both.
> According to /var/log/messages the connection failed in both cases
> because it ran out of time.
> 
> Incidentally one of the devices had WEP encryption
> but NM never asked me about this
> so I don't see how it could possibly have worked.
> 
> There appeared to be no place for any kind of configuration,
> and the sole documentation provided with NM
> appeared to be a short README.
Configuration is done through nm-applet which on FC6 runs automatically
at boot to produce an icon in the right side of the upper panel. Did you
try to use that? I use it on my WEP encrypted access points and it works
fairly well. The latest version also does LEAP authentication.
> 
> I googed for an NM tutorial or FAQ but had no joy.
The faq is at:
http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ

> 
> What is really disturbing is that Windows XP has no problem
> accessing either of these WiFi devices
> (both running on Linux machines!).
> 
> WiFi under Fedora really is dreadful.
> The only thing I can say for it
> is that SuSE was even worse.
> 
> Why do none of the WiFi programs
> tell you what they have found,
> eg "Connected to remote machine but encryption key required",
> which it is clear they have learned from /var/log/messages ?
> 
> I should add that I have WiFi working perfectly,
> by editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 .
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> 
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